We Filipinos are so good at imitating everything western. Everything, from films to fashion, from culture to food. As they say, imitation is the best form of flattery, and we have flattered our Caucasian brothers and sung their praises all the way to the high heavens. One of the things we sincerely wish we didn’t copy from them is the PopCom’s penchant for population scaremongering. They simply have to tell you the worst things in order to get the public to accept the population control…

Ang Kapatiran secretary-general Norman Cabrera spoke to reporters the morning of July 22, 2013, a few hours before the president was to give his yearly State of the Nation address. He called the president’s RH law as “bad legislation that leads to bad economics.” He added: “the RH law will be another source of corruption and is only a ‘masquerading’ policy to address poverty in the country by means of population control focused on the poor. They want to reduce the poverty rate by reducing the number of poor.”…